"political vacuum" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "political vacuums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "political vacuum (plural political vacuums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "January 26 2005, The Washington Times\nBoth directly and through their terrorist intermediaries in Lebanon, Iran's ayatollahs have been meddling in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for years. But the death of Yasser Arafat, and the political vacuum that has emerged in the wake of the Palestinian strongman's passing, have laid the groundwork for even greater Iranian infiltration of Palestinian politics."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A state of relative anarchy compared to neighboring states, often caused by death of the head of state before a successor could be designated."
      ],
      "id": "en-political_vacuum-en-noun-BiMaUo7P",
      "links": [
        [
          "anarchy",
          "anarchy"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhèngzhì zhēnkōng",
          "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
          "word": "政治真空"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
          "word": "poliittinen tyhjiö"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "polityčnyj vakuum",
          "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "політичний вакуум"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "political vacuum"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "political vacuums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "political vacuum (plural political vacuums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "January 26 2005, The Washington Times\nBoth directly and through their terrorist intermediaries in Lebanon, Iran's ayatollahs have been meddling in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for years. But the death of Yasser Arafat, and the political vacuum that has emerged in the wake of the Palestinian strongman's passing, have laid the groundwork for even greater Iranian infiltration of Palestinian politics."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A state of relative anarchy compared to neighboring states, often caused by death of the head of state before a successor could be designated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anarchy",
          "anarchy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhèngzhì zhēnkōng",
      "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
      "word": "政治真空"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
      "word": "poliittinen tyhjiö"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "polityčnyj vakuum",
      "sense": "state of relative anarchy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "політичний вакуум"
    }
  ],
  "word": "political vacuum"
}